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1989 In Technology the 486 series of microprocessor
is released by Intel opening the way for the next generation of much more
powerful PC's and Microsoft releases its Office Suite including Spreadsheet,
Word Processor, Database and Presentation Software which today still dominates
in office applications.

Following Massive protests against the Berlin
Wall bringing about the collapse of The Berlin Wall and the East German
Government both are dismantled which leads after many years to the reunification
of East and West Germany. In China Pro democracy protesters clash with
Chinese Security Forces in Tiananmen Square and the pictures of a man
taking on a tank are seen on TV news throughout the world.

Cost of Living 1989

How Much things cost in 1989
Yearly Inflation Rate U.S.A. 4.83%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 2753
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 10.50%
Average Cost of New House $120,000.00
Average Income Per Year $27,450.00
Average Monthly Rent $420.00
Average Price for New Car $15,3500.00
1 Gallon of Gas 97 cents
US Postage Stamp 25 cents

What Events Happened in 1989

USSR
pulls out of Afghanistan

PLO and Israel begin preliminary talks

Pro democracy protesters clash with Chinese
Security Forces

Tokyo Stock Market Crash ends Japans
long period of high Economic Growth

New Prime Minister in South Africa F.W.
de Klerk starts to dismantle apartheid

Free Elections in Poland bring Solidarity
to power

Partial elections in USSR

Massive protests and either side of the Berlin
Wall bring about the collapse of the East German Government and
the Berlin Wall is breached and eventually dismantled and The Brandenburg
Gate opened Berlin Wall Coming Down

Thousands of Students occupy Tiananmen
Square in Beijing China protesting for democracy , Chinese Government
Declares martial law and Hundreds of Demonstrators are killed

Following the Tiananmen Square incident the
US and other countries around the world place sanctions on China

George Bush Snr becomes president of
the United States

The United States Supreme Court ruled that
flag burning as a form of political protest is an act of protected
speech under the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed
in Florida's electric chair

12 European Community nations agree to ban
the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end century

In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is
found in the Great Pyramid of Giza

A UK 747 crashes on the M1 Motorway

In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon
Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running
aground

Hillsborough disaster occurred on April
15, 1989, at Hillsborough, a football stadium in Sheffield, England,
resulting in the loss of 96 lives

British police arrest 250 for celebrating
the summer solstice at Stonehenge

Marchioness pleasure boat collides with a
barge on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge and 51 die

The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring
7.1 on the Richter scale, strikes San Francisco Bay Area in California,
killing 63

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a (FATWA
) death sentence on British writer Salman Rushdie for the Satanic
Verses

Yugo Cars go bankrupt

Ford buys Jaguar

After 30 years the Cold War between East and
West is coming to an end and the Berlin Wall comes down

Civil War in Lebanon increases between
Christian and Islamic Fundamentalists

Ayatolla Khomeini announces a FATWA
(death Sentence on Salman Rushdie for publishing the "The Satanic
Verses")

The US Government provides a $150 billion
bailout for hundreds of saving and loan associations

Popular Culture 1989

The first episodes of the Simpson's are shown

Popular Films

Batman

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Lethal Weapon 2

Twins

Back to the Future Part II

Ghostbusters II

The Little Mermaid

Driving Miss Daisy

Parenthood

Dead Poets Society

License to Kill

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids

My Left Foot

When Harry Met Sally

Popular Musicians

Duran Duran

Paul McCartney

Phil Collins

Prince

Madonna

Erasure

The Bangles

Madonna

New Kids On The Block

Cher

R.E.M

Depeche Mode

Paula Abdul

Garth Brooks

Elvis Costello

Technology 1989

The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning
System is placed into orbit

Nintendo begin selling the Game Boy in Japan

Voyager II passes the planet Neptune and its
moon Triton and sends pictures back to earth

The 486 series of microprocessor introduced
by Intel

Scientists pronounce 1989 as the warmest on
record possibly a sign of the greenhouse effect

Florida and Virginia allow use of DNA genetic
fingerprinting evidence as admissible

First release of Microsoft Office,
a bundle of applications such as Microsoft Word and
Microsoft Excel.